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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
have good samskaras of the past lives that take off immediately. We go through various stages of development of inter dependence with the Ultimate during our march in the spiritual path. These happens after we have developed Viveka and Vairagya and reach the knot 2 as indicated in the book Towards Infinity of our Revered Master. These are essentially buffer zones as our Master calls them. These buffer zones are there at several places in the path and I would refer to some of them as it relates to surrender that we experience between knots 2 to 3.
When the interdependency of the self with that Master is getting realized the first feeling is that He is the father and is the one who gives food, shelter and clothes gets established. This has many emotional tones and religious literature substantiates this phase in the case of many saints. The feeling that He is the father slowly yields to the more abstract notion that He is the protector in every sense of the term. He becomes the refuge for any and every problem. This leads to the feeling that He
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